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From: mfriedel@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Friedel Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT prototype with Motorola 40mhz 88110 RISC CPU!
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.193441.4325@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 19:34:41 GMT
References: <676698423wkn3369@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> <SMITHW.91Jun12071931@hamblin.hamblin.math.byu.edu>
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In article <SMITHW.91Jun12071931@hamblin.hamblin.math.byu.edu> smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes:
>Well, I might add that Moto has made it *very* attractive to NeXT
>to go with the 88110.  They want NeXT to buy into the 88k line
>bad, especially since HP decided on the PA route.
>  However, something may be fishy with the infoworld article.
>The Mips number is a bit low I think.  Unless NeXT put on the 
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I heard from someone at NeXT that the machine is going to be in the order
of 100 MIPS, and that it is going to be a multiprocessor environement.
They where talking about beating the SNAKE.

Mike

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